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Letters Patent No. 71,712, dated December 3, 1867.

IMPROVED MEDICAL COMPOUND.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONQERN:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM DAVIDSON, of Binghamton, Brooms county,.zind State of New York, have invented-a Composition-for the Cure of the following Diseases: Rheumatism, Neil'r'filgia, sprains, Burns, Wounds, and Weak Backs. The sameecompound may also be used for horses for the following diseases: sprains, ringbo'ne, thoroughpin. curb, collar-gall, bruises, scratches, grease-heel, and thrush; and I do hereby declare that I the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

The nature of my invention consists in the preparation of a liniment composed of various chemical ingredients, compounded in such proportions as to act as a specific for the above-named diseases, to be known as fDavidsons Compound OH.

I make my composition of the following ingredients in the proportion as given: Spirits of turpentine, one

half pint; oil of spike, one half pint; oil of origanum, two ounces; oil of olive, two ounces; alcohol, four ounces; eholoroform, one' and a, half ounce; pulverized alum, one half drachm; aqua'ammonia, two ounces; saltpetre,

one half ounce; oil of vitriol, two drachms.

I pulverize'the 'saltpetre and alum and put them into a vessel, add the spirits of turpentine and the other ingredients with the exception of the vitriol, which I add in aslow and cautious manner, the action of wthich produces a. chemical effect upon the entire mass.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, i s The composition herein described, for the purposes set forth.

WILLIAM DAVIDSON.

Witnesses:

A. E. ANDREWS, J suns 'FLYNN. 

